This book presents the basic concepts for understanding and practicing breast pathology in routine practice. It explains how to tackle the diagnosis, emphasizing diagnostic clues for each entity as well as pitfalls and mimickers. Each chapter has concise, relevant text illustrated by numerous high-quality pictures highlighting the pearls and challenges in the diagnosis of breast lesions.

Experts from around the world describe common and rarer conditions affecting the breast. Histology, immunohistochemistry, cytology, radiology and key morphologic criteria are covered. The book includes a chapter dedicated to breast normal histology, which is very important for understanding breast pathology, and a separate chapter for breast radiology, which is essential in understanding and diagnosing the breast lesions especially in a multidisciplinary team. Also, there is a chapter with the latest TNM staging system as well as the recently revised World Health Organization classification ofbreast tumors. Since in many breast units the cytology is still used to diagnose breast lesions there is a chapter dedicated to this technique.

This book is aimed at trainees and practicing pathologists in surgical pathology, particularly those with an interest in breast pathology and those tackling the daily sign-out. 

Histology of the normal breast

Radiology of the normal breast and the BIRADS system
Inflammatory lesions of the breast
Lesions of the breast with uncertain etiology
Benign epithelial lesions of the breast
Myoepithelial lesions of the breast
Classification of the breast carcinoma
Benign tumors of the breast
Ductal in situ carcinoma
Lobular neoplasia
Microinvasive carcinoma
Infiltrating carcinoma of the breast
Special types of invasive breast carcinoma
Staging of the breast carcinoma
Prognostic and predictive factors in breast carcinoma
Morphologic changes induces by the oncologic treatment for breast carcinoma
Mesenchymal lesions of the breast
Fibroepithelial lesions of the breast
Hematopoietic lesions of the breast
Lesions of the nipple
Breast lesions in male
Core needle biopsy interpretation
The role of immunohistochemistry in breast pathology
"Basic" molecular biology in breast carcinoma
Breast lesions in children
Metastatic tumors tothe breast
Sampling the breast surgical specimens
The role of cytopathology in the modern diagnosis of breast pathology.